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You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what [Donald Trump] does already. The mystery is how he's gotten as far as he's gotten.

Errol Morris

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Errol Morris
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 5
Actor
Film Director
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Hewlett
New York
Errol Mark Morris
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I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
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I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.
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The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
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I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?
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I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?.
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I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.
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Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.
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I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.
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If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.
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The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.
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I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. And my boss gave me this one very simple piece of advice about trying to figure out who to interview first in any investigation. His recommendation: Always pick the people who were fired. Pick the people who are pissed off.
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Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.
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There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.
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Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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